only slowly catching up on study logs, it’s like 3 in the morning, im sorry if i haven’t read all of them yet, i’m trying to catch up with all of your stories on the side, sorry i’m overcentralizing the conversation here!
thank you thank you C:
I AM PURROUD THANKS IM TRYING xddd
see the thing is i WANT TO BE PROUD OF GERMAN TOO, but that’s a november arc most likely xdddd
but i am proud of my japanese as well, thanks for highlighting it!
NOO AND THEY’RE NOT HERE ANYMORE CAN I BORROW THEM AGAIN
When I think of the wordplay in 百合はお仕事, I think of changing the names of the characters to have the fancier characters in the name, of the different alphabets used for writing names, for different levels of politeness to indicate comedic disconnect and being in the acting mode, that personally was cool and I wish there was more of it, it might continue, I might continue reading too ^^
also, i am picking up on different services pretty slowly, and if i manage to pick them up after a while, i tend to go pretty hard on them, so i’m looking forward to seeing me finally start using jpdb really hard in a while from now, i just need to have people convince me a little more xddd
August 25th, 2025
- 161 reviews on WaniKani
- 18 lessons on WaniKani
- 29 reviews on Bunpro
- 3 stories on Satori Reader
- Magazine: ガレット No.３３, pages to 64
- ザット ･ガール ･デイ ･イン ･ライフ #5 by 山田酉子 xddd
You can’t even look up the name of the series online, because nothing shows up, but I promise that it exists, and it’s also pretty silly and lighthearted, well adjusted and well functioning, I’m happy for the protagonist, it’s just fun xddd
I was listening to a German podcast today about travel to Korea and Japan, because I was looking for something to practice my German and tie it into my next month too:
and I find it always really sweet that often, when a woman is making a solo traveling podcast, she prefaces it with “ohh, i always travel together with other people, i would never think of traveling alone, it’s scary, I thought I’d feel lonely and in danger all the time” and then grow to the realization that traveling alone is great because you can go out at any time, you can do things at any time, you don’t have to wait for anyone, so I’m really glad to hear her grow from that experience C:
I have a feeling that traveling alone is something that’s been so transformative to my life, that I might no longer remember how to compromise with other people and not travel alone when I’m going somewhere for a longer time, so traveling through Asia with my mom in September is going to be really interesting 
I really hope we’ll both nail the trip though ^^
if you have any recommendations for Seoul, definitely leave them over!
It’ll leak onto the life section as well, because…
Life
Today was DRAGON SLAYER’s last day in Berlin, and he’s back to Canada after today ^^
I was really blblbl after the whole Gamescom thing, so a fast thing I came up with, Dussmann, the biggest media/culture shop in Berlin, turned out to be a place where we got to ask one another a lot of questions about culture, media consumption, and what we’re into, all the way from Chopin, through Sabrina Carpenter and Charli XCX, to way-overpriced notebooks and way-overengineered tarot card decks xddd
His hand also got eaten away and DRAGON SLAYER’s body part unfortunately will stay in Berlin forever now 
He got a Chopin book in German to learn the language when he’s back at home, and we went to a hot pot place, full of oversharing and with smiles on our faces C:
inb4, yes, that’s the one place in Berlin that takes Asian spicyness seriously, and as I was oversharing one of my queerplatonic sapphic experiences, a super spicy noodle glued to the back of my throat and I was like “AAAA IT BURNS WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO” and went for like a minute long coughing fit, 10/10 xdddd
I’m not even trying to be like, “ooh im so cool because i eat spicy”, it’s just a capital “a” “Adventure” each time you go for one xdd
Then we walked together to Hackescher Markt and This Was The Last Time I Saw Him
So fun story, because of the Chopin book he bought, he didn’t have enough space in the suitcase anymore, and he entrusted me with his leather messenger bag being like “if I ever see you again, you can give me this bag back, but until then, it belongs to you indefinitely”, which like, AAAAAA xdd
HE’S GOING THROUGH THE AO3 TROPES I CANT XDDDD
Also, parting ways, he mumbled something about me being his precious friend and coming at an important moment in his life and that he was able to self-discover so much in Berlin bUT I WASNT LISTENING BECAUSE I WAS BLUSHING HJBSDHBJCDBSJHBBH xddd
sooo we took a final picture together and its landing on my friends wardrobe and i will cherish the time dearly in my heart (probably xdd)
oh, and the final birthday gift he gave to me, i dont know why people assume i read books, cmon, (says a person who’s a part of three book clubs) xddd
ahhh the summer of '25, all of the queerplatonic memories i’ll cherish deeply and carry upon myself
it already might be the single best year of my life no competition so eeee im kINDA GLAD TO SEE IT BEING EVEN BETTER??? xddd
anyway, SLEEP. GOOD NIGHT. xddd